I cant sleep for fear something is standing over me. help?!

I cant sleep for fear something is standing over me. help?

This has happened a few times. But it has not happened lately until last night. right before i get ready to go in a deep sleep i open my eyes back up. Because i feel like something is standing over me or watching me. My house is always completely dark when i go to sleep and i live alone. I have been there for 3 years and the house is over 60 years old. One time i went ahead and went into a deep sleep and i felt like something was holding me down from moving and i kept hollering but i knew i was just dreaming. I prayed three times the same prayer and i felt like it wasn't until the third prayer when i really meant it was i able to be released then when i woke up I had fell half way out the bed. one leg and foot in the bed the other leg and foot on the floor. I don't know wheather to just pray harder before i go to bed or take sleeping peels or what. what do you think?

Sleep with the light on.